TALBOT, Joseph Edward, a Representative from Connecticut; born in Naugatuck, New Haven
County, Conn., March 18, 1901; attended the public schools; was graduated from
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1922 and from Yale Law School in 1925; was
admitted to the bar in 1925 and commenced practice in Naugatuck and Waterbury,
Conn.; prosecuting attorney, Naugatuck, Conn., 1928-1933 and judge 1935-1937;
State treasurer 1939-1941; workmens compensation commissioner for the fifth
district of Connecticut in 1941 and 1942; elected as a Republican to the
Seventy-seventh Congress in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of J. Joseph Smith; reelected to the Seventy-eighth and
Seventy-ninth Congresses and served from January 20, 1942, to January 3, 1947;
was not a candidate for renomination in 1946; unsuccessful candidate for the
gubernatorial nomination in 1946; unsuccessful candidate for election to the
United States Senate in 1950; appointed a member of the United States Tariff
Commission in April 1953; reappointed in May 1959 and again on July 14, 1965,
serving as vice chairman 1953-1959 and as chairman from 1959; chairman,
Committee on Reciprocity Information, from 1959 until his death in Washington,
D.C., April 30, 1966; interment in St. James Cemetery, Naugatuck, Conn.